• History

    Literary History

    How Viking Introduced John Steinbeck, James Joyce and More to American Readers

    Paul Slovak on Pascal Covici, the Editor Who Nurtured Some of the Most Iconic Names in Literature

     
    By Paul Slovak  September 16, 2025
    Immigration

    “Love Your Neighbor as Yourself” Means Everyone—Including Immigrants, Migrants, and Refugees

    By John Fugelsang  September 12, 2025
    On Technology

    The Future (and Past) is Human (and Machine)

    By Alan Lightman  September 12, 2025
    On Poetry

    How Adam Zagajewski “Accidentally“ Wrote the Definitive 9/11 Poem

    By Elaine L. Wang  September 11, 2025
    American West

    How Photographer Frank S. Matsura Challenged White America’s Hegemonic View of the West

    By Glen Mimura  September 11, 2025
    The Hub

    No one’s reading for fun, apparently. Here’s a reading list to fix that.

    By James Folta  September 10, 2025
    Book Marks: What the Critics Are Saying
    Jane Austen

    What Money Really Means in Jane Austen’s Work

    By John Mullan  September 10, 2025
    Gentrification

    Friedrich Engels Predicted Modern Gentrification 150 Years Ago

    By P.E. Moskowitz  September 9, 2025
    Spiritualists

    The Rise of Spiritualism (and Séances) After the First World War

    By Alice Vernon  September 8, 2025
    Iran

    Why There Can Be No Freedom in Iran Without Freedom For Women

    Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy on How the Murder of Mahsa Jîna Amini Sparked a Revolution

    By Fatemeh Jamalpour and Nilo Tabrizy  September 15, 2025
    World War I

    The WWI Battle That Never Ended: Finding Unexploded Mines in Verdun’s Fields

    By Michael Jerome Plunkett  September 5, 2025
    On Translation

    A New Translation of Grave of the Fireflies Commemorates 80 Years Since the End of WWII

    By Ginny Tapley Takemori  September 4, 2025
    Democracy

    Are Americans Being Conditioned to Accept Delayed Elections?

    By Aron Solomon  September 3, 2025
    Virgil

    Emily Wilson Explores The Aeneid ’s Influence on the Contemporary Western World

    “This ancient epic raises profound, provocative questions that are now more pressing than ever.”

    By Emily Wilson  September 3, 2025
    Immigration

    Howling Into the Wind: On 41 years of Writing About the Abuses of the Immigration System

    By Daniel A. Olivas  September 3, 2025
    The Hub

    This week’s news in Venn diagrams.

    By James Folta  August 29, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s Obama’s 2025 summer reading list.

    By Brittany Allen  August 27, 2025
    Palestine

    The Paddystinians of Belfast: On the Palestinian Solidarity Movement in Northern Ireland

    Philip Metres Examines the Close Bonds of Occupation

    By Philip Metres  August 27, 2025
    Palestine

    How the Oslo Accords Fragmented Palestine and Uprooted a People

    By Literary Hub  August 27, 2025
    Politics

    The Enduring Legacy of Eleanor Bumpurs, Murdered by the NYPD For Resisting Eviction

    By LaShawn Harris  August 27, 2025
    Sci-Fi

    How to Think About the Future, With a Little Help From Science Fiction

    By Nick Foster  August 26, 2025
    Ancient History

    How Ancient Receipts Ushered in the Dawn of the Written Word

    Moudhy Al-Rashid on the Earliest Forms of Writing

    By Moudhy Al-Rashid  August 26, 2025
    The Hub

    C-SPAN is starting a (very “patriotic”) book club.

    By Brittany Allen  August 25, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  August 22, 2025
    Travel

    Here’s what’s making us happy this week.

    By Brittany Allen  September 5, 2025
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